Dr. Newberry led our second engineering emphasis section in the Summer Honors Academy, focusing on rocketry using water propelled low-cost rockets. Approximately 30 students competed in the project.

OC is connecting with business:

Dr. Kerianne Roper is working with the Oklahoma City Thunder to create student internships for conducting market research during the 2012-13 basketball season.

Dr. Burt Smith was named the Oklahoma National Speaker Association member of the year and recertified as an American Society for Quality Certified Quality Manager (CQM).

OC is global:

OC was selected as a host institution for the prestigious Brazil Science Without Borders program. We received eight junior/senior engineering and technology students this year for one year of study. Scholarships are given by the Brazilian government primarily to students in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Students in the program will return to Brazil to complete their degrees. This program is part of the Brazilian government's larger initiative to grant 100,000 scholarships for the best students from Brazil to study abroad at the world’s best universities.

Our MBA Learning Support Center (LSC) opened in Kigali, Rwanda, with 27 students enrolled in OC’s online program this fall. OC’s LSC is staffed by OC MBA graduate Jean Rindiro.